Shade-roller bracket.



. No. 655,089. Patented July 3|, I900. W. E, KEARNEY.

SHADE Ifll l-LLEB BRACKET.

(Application filed Sept. 16, 1899.) (No Model.)

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\VILLIAM E. KEARNEY, OF SHAMOKIN, PENNSYLVANIA.

SHADE=ROLLER BRACKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 655,089, dated July 31,1900.

Apnoea filed $eptember 16, 1899. Serial No. 730,756. (No model.)

T 00% whom it may oo'nce'ifma .Be it known that I, W ILLIAM E. KEARNEY,a citizen of the United States, residing at Shamokin, in the county of Northumberland and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a'new and usefulShade-Roller Bracket, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to shade-roller hangers, and has for its objectto provide a simple and improved device of this character which isdesigned for application to a window-frame or other support and alsobeing adjustable to accommodate the device to shade-rollers of differentlengths. It is furthermore designed to employ the fastenings whichsecure the device to a support as means for adj usting the oppositeshade-roller brackets and also for taking up wear, so as to insure acomparatively-rigid device.

With these and other objects in View the present invention consists inthe combination and arrangement of parts, as will be here inafter morefully described, shown in the accompanying drawings, and particularlypointed out in the appended claims, it being understood that changes inthe form, proportion, size, and minor details may be made within thescope of the claims without departing from the spirit or sacrificing anyof the advantages of the invention.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the upper portion ofa window-frame having the improved shade-roller hanger applied thereto.Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of the device detached and lookingat the rear side thereof.

Corresponding parts in both figures of the drawings are designated bylike characters of reference.

Referring particularly to Fig. 2 of the drawings, it will be seen thatthe present device comprises a sheath or casin g 2,which is formed froma single blank of sheet metal and having the opposite longitudinalspring-flanges 5, which extend inwardly in opposite directions acrossthe rear side of the sheath. At each of that of the flange.

'dicated in Fig. 1 of the drawings.

nals of the shade-roller.

with a perforation for the reception of a suitable fastening device,whereby the sheath may be secured to the window-frame 1, as in- Aperforation 4 is formed in the sheath at a point substantially midwaybetween the opposite ends thereof for the reception of a fastening toaid in securing the sheath to the windowframe.

Located at opposite ends of the sheath are the respective roller-bracketslides S and 9, which have their inner ends slidably embraced .by theflanges 5, and their outer ends project outwardly beyond the respectiveends of the sheath and are provided with the respective roller-brackets10, one of which has the usual circular opening 11 and the other acatch-slot 12 to receive the respective jour- The outer faces of theseslides are provided with oppositely-dis posed scales 9 to cooperate withthe adjacent ends of the sheath, so as to properly adjust thebracket-slides when the length of the shadetenings which pass throughthe attaching-ears 6 and into the support. As the flanges are in a planebeyond that of theattaching-ears,

the flanges will engage the support in ad Vance of the ears to insure apositive binding of the flanges upon the slides, and when it becomesnecessary to take up wear the fastenings are set farther into thesupport to bind the flanges more firmly upon the slides, thereby toafiord an adjustment for taking up wear and to insure acomparativelyrigid device; also, the fastening -which passes through theintermediate perforation at in the sheath draws the latter inwardly, soas to form an indentation, as clearly indicated in Fig. 1, so as to formstops for limiting the inward movement of the bracket-slides and to forman additionalfrictional engagement between the sheath and the slides. Y

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is- I 1. Ashadeioller hanger, compri'sing'opposite roller-bracket slides, a sheet metalsheath, having opposite inwardly-directed longitudinal spring-flangeslocated upon the rear" dinal spring-flanges located upon the rear sideof the sheath, the opposite ends of each flange being bent outwardlyinto attachingears, which are disposed in advance of the adjacentflanges, and provided with perforations, and fastenings received throughthe perforations in the attaching-ears, for securing the sheath to asupport, and to force the spring-flanges against the support and intoadjustable frictional engagement with the slides. In testimony that Iclaim the foregoing'as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in thepresence of two Witnesses.

1 WILLIAM E. KEARNEY. V Witnesses:

W. A. OOULsTON, J. J. REGNEY.

